JJ Virgin explains why your body needs the right fats for hormones, sleep, and fat burning. A study of 1,000 overweight adults who ate one avocado daily for six months didn't lose weight, but their red-blood-cell fatty-acid profiles improved, with less inflammation and better glucose control.
So when you eat the right fats, it helps maintain healthy cholesterol balance and helps your body produce hormones. If you don't have the right fats, your body can't properly make and balance your hormones, and that's going to impact your— how strong you are, how well you sleep, if you can burn fat. Super important. There was a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that found that eating 1 avocado a day for 6 months improved red blood cell fatty acid profiles and reduced links between certain fatty acids and health risks in in adults with abdominal obesity and created a steadier metabolic environment to help the body make and regulate hormones. And this was 1,000 adults that were either overweight or obese and had a bigger waist circumference. And literally they had one group that just ate the way they ate and the other group ate an avocado every day. I know which group I would've liked to have been in. And again, the avocado group had better blood cell fatty acid profiles. And of course those profiles showed more monounsaturated fats. Not surprising. In the control group, they had a rise in fatty acids linked with worse visceral fat, with poor glucose and insulin and inflammation markers. So what's the takeaway? While the daily avocado consumption didn't make you lose fat, it improved your fatty acid balance in your body and improved metabolic health, which is going to be good for hormone balance.
